It's clear: Trump is a Russian operative | PennLive letters

It's become unarguably clear, for whatever reason, that Donald Trump is a Russian operative. U.S. Rep. Scott Perry and U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey have shown themselves by their enabling behavior to be complicit in that (as have virtually all Republicans running for re-election).

As a registered independent who has voted for four Republican presidents over the years (Nixon, Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43), I find it appalling to see the GOP deteriorate into the party of the uninformed, uneducated, gullible and worst of all, the hypocritical.

What is also clear is that Trump and American democratic institutions cannot co-exist. I fear that the Republicans' lack of political courage or personal ethics that keeps them from removing this unfit politician from office portends an ugly, violent resolution to this sad chapter in American history, and perhaps that of the entire world.